help with SD card and media being write protected?

[junior]

Trying to save something to my SD card, but it wont let me. Says the media is write protected? How can I unprotect it?

[careybirdwell]

There is a little tab on the left side. Slide it to the unlock position

[WyoBull]

There should be a little slide on the side of it that is probably set to write protect mode. Slide it the other direction and try it again. See if that works for you.

[lameduck]

Call North Korea

[junior]

ill try it thanks

[junior]

I tried that, it still says the disk cannot be written to because it is write protected. Please remove the write protection from the volume in drive E.

[junior]

It was in the unlock mode from the beginning if that helps, but I tried it locked also!

[Stan R]

bad disk?

[rjet]

Work or personal computer?
Asking cause on our work computers IT has put a block on allowing users to write to external drives unless exception is in place.

[careybirdwell]

bad disk?

Yes, I have had some do this when the card starts to go bad

[junior]

shouldnt be bad, just bought it! might be work computer?

[junior]

bump

[EdO]

Have not had it happen to an sd card, but have had it happen to a memory stick. I tried everything including going to the terminal (I use Linux, so DOS command line should be the same) and tried changing it to full read/write/execute. Computer said it made the change, Tried to write to the memory stick and it was still RO. I finally copied the memory stick to another drive, formatted the stick, and then copied everything back. It's been a year or so since the episode and everything is still fine. What happened??? Ain't got a clue.